I don’t see many movies. Maybe 1-2 a year? I absolutely have not seen even 10% of the MCU movies. I saw The Avengers in 2012. Then I saw Wolferine and Deadpool a couple years ago.

I liked the Avengers. I felt like the story was the story. I’m not a reader of The Avengers. I know who the characters are, but there’s absolutely huge character defining events that I would have no clue about from the comics. That being said, I liked the movie. I probably missed stuff if I would have been a comic book reader, but that’s ok. The movie stood on it’s own, and I understood the movie.

Wolferine and Deadpool I did not enjoy. Full disclosure, I’ve not seen any of the X-Men movies. I’ve not seen any of the Deadpool movies. I know the characters. I used to watch the X-Men cartoon in the 90s. I don’t read either of the comics. And I’ve also not seen hardly any of the MCU movies. I’m not a megafan who gets every little reference. So MY perspective of that movie was that stuff just kind of happened. And you’re like “Ok, I guess this is happening now”. But from a story perspective, it makes no sense. A good example is that in the movie they just randomly bump into Gambit and a few of the X-Men. Just by chance, then the big scene happens, and after that the X-Men being in that movie made no difference. So I’m just sitting in the theater thinking “Well what the hell was THAT all about??” Later I find out that the actor who played Gambit was apperently an internet obsession to get him to play Gambit, and it’s not even the same actor from the original X-Men movies. So the point of the scene is to get that actor to play Gambit, specifically to satisfy the specific portion of the audience who got super invested in casting news from 10 years ago, and were vocal that their favorite didn’t get cast. Cool. I was unaware of ANY of that as I watched the movie. And that’s all that movie was. References and call-backs to things I was unfamiliar with the source material for.

That brings us to Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

I enjoy spiderman comics. I’m not currently reading any, but I dip in and out of the comics from a historical range. I have a book which shows off the original stuff. I guess technically it would be considered a reprint, but it was released in 2023 or maybe 2022. So I can see where it started from. I also have a bunch from the 80s and 90s. I also watched the cartoon on fox in the 90s. Technically I’m somewhere in Spiderman 3 from 2007. I liked Spiderman 1 and 2. I’ve seen 3. Don’t care for it.

I also saw The Amazing Spiderman. I think that was around 2012? But I never saw the sequal, and I’m just now finding out that there were 3 other spiderman movies in the MCU. So I never saw those. I also never saw that animated one from a few years back. I forget it’s name.

So, my question is, given what I’m familiar with, am I going to enjoy this movie? Or will I just be left feeling confused and empty? Please don’t give spoilers on anything. Keep it generic. I’m just trying to get an idea on if I’ll like the overall presentation of the movie. I want to see it, based on a 20 second commercial I saw. I do not plan on researching anything about the movie. I want my only impressions to be made in the theater.

That being said, will I even enjoy it?